The team had to work to prevent drill failures and ensure that the electromechanical core drill was progressing through the ice layers. Each meter of ice can contain as many as 13,000 years of ...

This week, uncover some of the oldest ice on Earth, follow a dinosaur highway, learn how Pluto sealed the capture of its moon Charon with a “kiss,” and more.

The record for the world's oldest ice was actually broken not long ago when researchers in Antarctica managed to retrieve ice ...

For the first time, an international team of researchers has shown that countless tiny ice quakes take place in one of ...

The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets to the sea—and a change in their dynamics will contribute significantly to ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

An international team of Earth and environmental scientists has found evidence that the Ronne Ice Shelf in the West Antarctic ...

The deeper the cores go, the more history they contain — and the icy layers could also solve some of the biggest questions about mysterious eras in Earth’s 4.5 billion-year history. A team retrieved a ...